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[Renze]

Trabant was a cheap vehicle it didn't pretend otherwise. In fact it was quite reliable, had large fuel consumption and it was only car that you could remove the engine from the car by bare hands overhaul it on your kitchen table and put it back in the car in about two hours. It was not made of fiberglass but from a material very similr to formica (Counter top stuff). There were many jokes about the car.

My neighbours wife comes from Germany, her father and his sister went to the West right before the Curtain was erected and the borders shut. He has been visiting wifes cousins all through the 70s till now, and has lots of anecdotes of how things went and how things changed over the years, he noticed the difference with every year they went there. The goods like clothing they sent there, the message they got "thanks for the trousers" but they sent a sweater and some shoes too which were taken by corrupt customs, and the transit road to West Berlin on which you couldnt stop to take a leak, or armed soldiers would come by and tell you to move on, because they were afraid of breakouts, and gas station employees could be secret service agents spying to the foreigners using the road...

When the Wall fell i was only 6 years old so it was all before my time, but living today, its hard to imagine for me that this took place just 400km from my house...

 

[aczlan]

The goods like clothing they sent there, the message they got "thanks for the trousers" but they sent a sweater and some shoes too which were taken by corrupt customs

Still happens with packages to Ukraine.
My brother was over there for 2 years a couple of years back and ran into the same things on a regular basis with packages that we sent to him.
I also saw occasional similar problems shipping stuff to Argentina (in 2004-2006), but only on a few packages (1-5%?).

Aaron Z

 

[Capricious]

Why was that on CL?

Guy was advertising the tractor for sale.

There were other photos- i only saved that one. But the other photos showed that there were (2) kids riding in the bucket.

 

[Sysop]

It's not quite 10k on a Ranger, but it was the most I've done with mine and some would probably call it overloaded...

 

[roadhunter]

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Fisherman transports massive whale shark on truck in China | Mail Online

The best part is that the whale shark is an endangered species.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Saw something on the back of a landscapers trailer today that wasn't strapped down at all. was ZTR sized, had a couple bags of something behind it, but going around a turn I could see it rolling towards the back of the trailer. Guess they figured it wouldn't roll off since the back ramps were up. Course I didn't get a pic.

 

[BigE_]

I'm in Malaysia right now on a business trip. So many photo opportunities for people hauling things wrong! I saw a compact tractor this morning that only had a single strap holding it in place.

 

[yelbike]

I'm in Malaysia right now on a business trip. So many photo opportunities for people hauling things wrong! I saw a compact tractor this morning that only had a single strap holding it in place.

Pictures or it didn't happen!

 

[bcp]

It weighs 70 tons, so it doesn't need to be tied down to the trailer!

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Mining Mayhem: Unsecured dragline bucket

 

[BigE_]

Pictures or it didn't happen!

I really should start taking my camera on these trips. It is to a factory, though, and we aren't allowed to have cameras in the factory, so I leave the camera in the hotel.